Errata for A Gentle Introduction to Stata, Third Edition

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Chapter 1, p. 19, exercise 3, second paragraph

This exercise asks you to open states3.dta. This
dataset is no longer available in
[U] 25 Working with categorical data and factor variables,
so instead select the use link for
censusfv.dta. The variable to use with this dataset is
divorcert, instead of divorce_rate.

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Chapter 6, p. 127

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Chapter 9, p. 229, first sentence of the first paragraph

These results show not only that workfull and
married influence TV watching, as we saw before, but also
that there is also a statistically significant interaction,
workfull#married, F(1,1982) = 18.54, p<0.05.

These results show not only that workfull and
married influence TV watching, as we saw before, but also
that there is a somewhat significant interaction,
workfull#married, F(1,1982) = 3.81, p=0.0509.

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Chapter 10, p. 284, table 10.2

small: f2 = 0.20 R2 = 0.20

small: f2 = 0.02 R2 = 0.02

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